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Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023

In central Brazil, mining company ignores Quilombola concerns over gold project

Sandra Silva/The Mining Observatory 29 Mar 2023
Overflight of illegal mining within the Yanomani Indigenous territory, Roraima, Brazil, April 2021. Image by Christian Braga for Greenpeace.

Can a new regional pact protect the Amazon from environmental crime? (commentary)

Carolina Andrade, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 28 Mar 2023
Illegal mining areas inside Yanomami land near the Mucajaí River.

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Sean Mowbray 16 Mar 2023

Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2023
Yellowfin tuna. Image by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.

Fishing industry transparency is key for a thriving ocean (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Mar 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023
Frozen albacore tuna on a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

Monica Evans 21 Feb 2023

‘Mercury is a complex problem’: Q&A with Colombian Mining Minister Irene Vélez Torres

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 20 Feb 2023
Deforestation in the Amazon.

The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Feb 2023
A Siamese fireback.

Vietnam’s environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space

Hướng Thiện 13 Feb 2023
Mining rafts and dredges on the Puré River.

Illegal mines and “floating towns” on the Puré River leave uncontacted Indigenous peoples at risk

Pilar Puentes 6 Feb 2023
Thai reefer Precious 9.

Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
A tokay gecko.

Rumors and misconceptions threaten tokay geckos in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jan 2023
A European bison running.

Mongabay’s 10 most popular videos of 2022

Lucia Torres 28 Dec 2022
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022

A new tool to peer into fishing networks: Q&A with Austin Brush of C4ADS

Melati Kaye 21 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
Illustration of deforestation.

Following the impacts of palm oil alliance: Violated regulations and penalty proceedings

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 17 Nov 2022

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